Her handbags, made of cloth in a "hippie chic" style, are sold at Henri Bendel in Manhattan, at Fred Segal Melrose in West Hollywood, Calif., and on her Web site, therealmonicainc.com.
That their boho-chic jewelry — made of oxidized metals, dotted with colorful stones and studded with shards of crystal — is peripheral in the photos is precisely the point.
Some heels were chic and subtle, made of barely there vaquetta leather.
Some of the fabrics were made to look like refuse, including a wet-looking black paper nylon that resulted in dresses that resembled Mr. Givenchy's chic styles, only made of Hefty bags.
A white dress coat made of a heavy material can look just as chic and sophisticated as a black or brown coat.
Made of rough-cut pine, with a green tin roof, it's the kind of rustic-chic hut that incites yearning in the frazzled hearts of urbanites.
These gorgeous satchels make the perfect souvenir: they're chic, they're local, and they're priced mostly around $265, even when they are made of exotic skins.
"Elizabeth said, 'You want to make of me a chic lady — but I am just a peasant, "' Valentino explains.
A new Chinese restaurant serving $50 meals is so crowded with foreigners that it has made a chic annex of the burned-out building next door, stringing it with Christmas lights.
But I do wonder what my late granny – who used to fondly recall the bread-and-dripping austerity suppers of her childhood – would make of our growing appetite for chic lards and drippings.
